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Care to elaborate on the potato chip bag story? Sounds intriguing.
by nchelluri 11y ago
Care to elaborate on the potato chip bag story? Sounds intriguing.
- mbrameld 11y agoMy wild guess loosely based on my time spent writing software to analyze observed radar signals: I believe the parent probably opened the bag along the seams to get one flat piece of reflective (on the inside of the bag) material. I know weather balloons are often reflective so they can be tracked by radar. I'm guessing a full-size potato chip bag opened flat would be big enough for the radar to see, couldn't tell you if that's what the parent meant by fooling the radar or if something else was done to the bag to make the radar interpret it as an aircraft.
- airza 11y agoThis is pretty much it. My boss was definitely a level 99 duct tape programmer, and this was one of the many examples of his ingenuity.